Mandala

by Hugh Taylor

A dizzying trip through the tangled, dysfunctional, and sometimes hilarious relationships amongst a group of 1980s college friends. Claus and Dede were the power couple at the prestigious Beaton Lowell College in the 1980s. Giovanni Corigliano is the totemic film professor, an icon of 1960s righteousness. Jan Fox, a Midwest dermatologist's daughter who believes she win Corigliano's love and Dede's respect if she manages to convince Beaton Lowell to divest itself from South Africa. Adam Saperstein, a logorrheic savant whose political ruminations cast impotent stones at the politically correct orthodoxy of the day, desperately craves Corigliano's esteem while he vents his bilious rage at his holier-than-thou teacher. Havelock Payne, is Corigliano's great failure, the one who whored himself out in network television. Claus was killed while on a photo journalism assignment in Peru. Adam and Havelock have volunteered to fetch his body and bring it back to Dede for burial.
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245 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 7, 2013

About the author

Taylor works as a professional copy writer, creating marketing content for such clients as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Google, Advanced Micro Devices, and Lockheed Martin. Previously, he served as Social Software Evangelist for IBM Software Group and Public Relations Manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Technologies. Hugh is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley’s Law School and Graduate School of Information. He is the author of the books B2B Technology Marketing (2013), Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise (Addison Wesley 2009), The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Wiley 2006) and Understanding Enterprise SOA (Manning, 2005) as well as more than a dozen articles on business and technology. Hugh is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He earned his

AB, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1988 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.